Devang Gandhi

The biggest news on the Wall street after trading hours was Google missing its estimates. Google reported its Q4 earnings numbers today in the afterhours that did not meet what Wall street was expecting. It’s profits for the quarter were $4.43 per share, narrowly missing the estimates of $4.44 a share. The stock plunged about 8%. Well, that the price you pay when you are google and you miss the estimates by $0.01

In New Orleans, Louisiana, John Edwards said that he is dropping out of the Presidential race. Edwards had announced his run to be the president in New Orleans and that’s where he ended it. He, however did not endorse any other democratic candidate.

Mccain and Hillary have gained momentum recently but Super Tuesday will decide the nominees.

I recently came across rssHugger. It seems to be an interesting viral marketing concept. rssHugger is a website which is clean and simple to navigate. It is a place where blog readers find interesting blogs and bloggers can promote their blogs. A blogger can get a page on rssHugger for ten years that can display the blog’s rss feeds.
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Ever wondered how easy it is to create the “Site Map” page on your website? Well, if you are using wordpress, you are in luck. This wordpress sitemap plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. It is an HTML sitemap generator (unlike the XML ones) which is highly customizable from the WordPress admin panel.

Cron is a unix utility that allows tasks to run automatically in the background at the configured intervals. Crontab is a tool used to schedule cron jobs. Some great resources on setting up cron jobs.

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told The Associated Press that his company is innovating a technology that delivers data as fast as 160 MBPS. Comcast is also developing a service that will pop up caller-id of incoming calls on TVs and computers and a phone that lets users access email. So in the near future we can hope that a TV won’t be just a TV and a phone just a phone.

Ever tried to create a directory in windows that starts with a dot (period). The windows explorer wouldn’t let you do that. To do this you need to use DOS.

For example, consider that you need to create a directory called “.work” in the folder “C:\user”

1. Start> Run> (then type “cmd” and press ok)
2. Go to the “C:\user” directory cd C:\user
3. then type md .themes

This finally creates a folder that has a name starting with a dot.

I stumbled upon a great webpage that provides comparison of xml editors. It is a very comprehensive comparison